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Rolling your own payroll is about as good an idea as rolling your own crypto.
by fludlight 7y ago
Rolling your own payroll is about as good an idea as rolling your own crypto.
- say_it_as_it_is 7y agoHowever, if you roll your own crypto payroll, the risk of one project perfectly offsets that of the other. It's a perfect hedge.
- tehlike 7y agoIf rolling your own crypto, you mean cryptocoin, that sounds like a great idea to increase wealth :)
- cercatrova 7y agoCryptography not cryptocurrency.
- tehlike 7y agoThat was the joke.
- rodgerd 7y agoIt depends whether payroll theft is part of your business model, or something you're trying to avoid.
- walshemj 7y agoOne large company (170k employees) I worked at switched from an in house payroll system to an external month. Second month was a disaster in the end they had to physically cut the tape on the last remaining partially destroyed copy - about 20% got paid on time.
- fludlight 7y agoSwitching a large enterprise software system is almost as time consuming, expensive, and error prone as developing a replacement in-house. You would have experienced substantial problems even if it was in-house -> in-house-rewrite or external->in-house or external-a -> external-b.